mEERA eLBAY (Nee sHAH) - FOUNDER
Meera is a former city lawyer turned editor and writer.
Her passion for supporting bereaved young adults was borne out of her own personal experience of grief at a young age. In November 2018, she founded the young adult grief platform, Your New Normal (@yournewnormal1) to build a community of bereaved young adults, speaking openly and honestly about living with grief.
Meera lost her wonderful mother Veena while she was at university.; her younger sister was just 17 and still at school. They received very little support from the educational system during this tragic time in their lives and therefore had no option but to suppress their grief, in order to navigate the pressures of growing into adulthood. Both their experiences and the experiences of many other young adults who Meera met through YNN have highlighted this lack of understanding of and support for bereaved young adults in the UK's educational institutions.
In her spare time Meera loves travelling around Italy, racing through the latest crime fiction novel, walking her two dogs on Hampstead Heath and cooking dishes from her Indian heritage.
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